I am a software artist schooled in computer science and mathematics and living in San Francisco. I produce visuals by writing software. The end products of my work include digital prints, video, interactive systems, and web sites. The software has emergent properties, exhibits artificial life (a-life), and is distributed with an open source license. The graphics are abstract, sensuous, introspective, and emotive. The style is organic rather than geometric.

My work consumes a large part of my life, and hence it has many dimensions and intentions. Primarily, it is simply to create beauty. It validates the premise of a-life: that beauty and life can spring from iteration of simple mechanical rules. That you can get out more than what you put in. It validates the open-source model and repudiates the theory that artificial scarcity is necessary for art or information to have value. The intent of my work is to show that creation does not require control, and in fact, giving up control is the primary creative act.